He was 5' 11 and weighed 165-170 lbs during the peak of his professional boxing years (which included 289 fights). In years to come the larger-than-life Maxie Rosenbloom would parlay his sports fame into an expansive Hollywood career playing a series of Runyonesque-type thugs and pugs. Born Max Everitt Rosenbloom in Connecticut, the son of an impoverished Russian-Jewish shoemaker and his wife, Maxie was a truant and upstart from the beginning. An older brother (who fought under the name Leon ...[Read Story]
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